A remand prisoner from Mt Eden Prison has been on the run for four days after escaping during a hospital escort.<\/p>\n
Mt Eden Corrections Facility acting general manager Edith Pattinson said the man was able to slip away just before 9am on Friday, prompting a police search that remained ongoing.<\/p>\n
“Police were informed immediately and are actively searching for them. We encourage anyone with information about the prisoner’s location to contact police on 111.”<\/p>\n
The escapee was a 42-year-old man, according to police.<\/p>\n
A review was being carried out into the incident, Pattinson said. <\/p>\n
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“Public safety is our top priority. Any escape is unacceptable and an immediate review into how this incident occurred is being carried out.”<\/p>\n
RNZ reported the prisoner had been handcuffed during the escort.<\/p>\n
Corrections noted that it carried out tens of thousands of prisoner escorts annually between prisons, courts, specialist medical facilities and rehabilitation providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A remand prisoner from Mt Eden Prison has been on the run for four days after escaping during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-129138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}